Ashley first met Isabel in D.C. when Isabel interned for a couple of weeks at the George Washington University Library under Ashley's supervision. Ashley was stunned when she read Isabel's resume to see that they had worked in the same rare book shop in Chicago. They instantly bonded over war stories from the shop, and less than a year later they were colleagues at the University of Chicago's Special Collections Research Center. Isabel now works for the University of Illinois at Chicago as a Resident Librarian and is basically taking the library world by storm with a slew of publications and (international!) presentations. Isabel is a native Chicagoan and lives with her husband, Tim, in Pilsen. She is one of the most passionate, fair-minded, and affirming people Ashley knows.